- IT Manager at Federal Agency
Case Study - Federal Agency
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Challenges
The federal agency used vRA to offer virtual desktops and virtual
machines in a variety of operating system flavors to varying internal
audiences. But as the federal agency grew and expanded, the
administrative burden became too much to continue with vRA.
VMware was good at working with VMware, but it became infinitely
more difficult when working with other non-VMware infrastructure.
Because the federal agency is primarily a research center, they
needed to test and try varying scenarios and use cases on different
hypervisors, public clouds, and platforms. VMware made that difficult.
The orchestrator for vRA had its own syntax, language, and
troubleshooting steps, which forced a significant learning curve.
The cloud architect at the federal agency explained, "You had to dive
into the weeds. We simply don't have the time to teach ourselves how
to code in a new VMware-based language. Even the automation scripts
provided, needed work and were not 'out of the box'."
We needed more
SIMPLIFICATION in the
Self-Service IT process than
VMware gave us.
"
We plugged CloudBolt into vCenter
and it just worked! It was both easier to
implement and added more functionality
than vRealize Automation (vRA)."
"
